Atlas has its first commercial control library . Component Art just went live with the new version of their excellent control library. All their controls now have a full client-side API built on top of the Microsoft AJAX Library . They all support UpdatePanel and persist their changes across synchronous...

There are basically two ways to define classes in BLOCKED SCRIPT closures, where the constructor of the class both adds methods to the new instance and provides a common context for them, and prototypes, which are the first place JavaScript will look at when looking for a member that isn't directly...

In part 1 of this post, I exposed the differences between the closure and the prototype patterns to define JavaScript classes. In this post, I'll show the shortest path to convert an existing class built using Atlas and closures to a prototype-based class. I'll also show a few caveats that you...

It's a great pleasure to announce the beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX. It is a major release of the product formerly known as Prince Atlas. There are too many changes to enumerate here (we basically remodeled the house), but the idea is to provide a rock-solid core and continue to innovate with the value...

Miljan over at ComponentArt wrote his first post explaining how their migration to Beta 1 went (i.e. great, the whole thing was done in four days). He has some very nice things to say about the platform, which we're all very flattered about: "After getting over the initial hump, we found ASP...

Cross posted from: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/11/01/470.aspx Is AJAX really AJAX? The answer, like many other things, is “It Depends.” The AJAX acronym states that the X is for XML. I can’t speak for all frameworks, but some frameworks use JSON (JavaScript Object...

The UpdatePanel and the asynchronous postback support a new client side side page lifecycle. I've been going through this over the past couple of days. Its pretty interesting stuff. For More Info: http://ajax.asp.net/docs/tutorials/usingMsAjaxLibrary/default.aspx.

I've been work with getting data back from a web service with the October Release and using the Core Bits. If I try and return a datatable, I have been getting an error. I did some checking and I found that the datatable serializer is in the CTP dll, so this has been a frustrating situation. I did...

I'll be in Las Vegas next week for ASP Connections with some other people from the AJAX team. If you're going too, stop by and say hi. We're going to talk about some new exciting features, in particular some great localization and globalization stuff.

In previous CTPs, the client-side DOM event model was the IE model. You would use attachEvent and get the event data from window.event. In other words, we had just implemented the IE model in Firefox and Safari. This didn't fly as well as we expected for a number of reasons. For instance, it wasn't very...